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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Ralph Ellison

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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Danger Feel Inspire Motivation Losing Sense Where
The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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Belief Light Loyal One Liner Passion Revel Truth
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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Art Blue Circumstance Failing Human Irrepressible Music
I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Bridge Dream Education High School Graduation Success
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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Action Brain Forget Knowledge Possibility Power
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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Activity Attention God Hollywood Hunt Invisible Men Risk Spook
I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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Imagination Implement Innovation Integrative Judge Plan Solution Task
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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Fail Fear Issue Loose My Own Problem Try Way
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Act Individual Life Men Minor Minority Novel Universal
the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Available Discover Inspirational Inspiring Life One Liner

Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

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